Inhouse + AI
The L Suite: Inhouse Community + Legal AI
This week’s special AL TV interview is with L Suite co-founders Greg Raiten and Kiran Lingam. We explore, among other topics, how this inhouse community …
Contract AI
Ivo Launches ‘Collaborate’ Contract Lifecycle Platform
Ivo has launched Collaborate, an ‘orchestration platform for the entire contract lifecycle’. It handles contracts from intake through to approval, negotiation and signature, they said. …
AI Partnership
Scissero + Mayer Brown Form Partnership – CEO Interview
Legal AI pioneer Scissero and major US law firm Mayer Brown are partnering to provide an integrated issuance solution for structured products. This exclusive deal …
Funding
Aloi Raises $7m For ‘Organisational Judgment’ + CEO Interview
Aloi has raised $7m in early funding to develop what it calls ‘organisational judgment’, in order to improve legal AI outcomes. (See in-depth AL interview …
FDE Battle
Harbor Seeks To Counter General LLM FDEs
Legal tech consultancy Harbor has launched ‘Deploy’ for legal AI needs, which will see them ‘embed specialist teams, including forward-deployed engineers (FDE), inside clients’. They …
Innovation Dilemma
Must ‘Claude For Legal’ Head Be A Lawyer?
Some have criticised Anthropic’s choice of Robert Mahari as its ‘Head of Claude for Legal’ for not having worked long-term as a lawyer. But, does …
Legal Transformation
Bird & Bird Hires Big Four Transformation Team From EY
International law firm Bird & Bird has hired a legal transformation team from Big Four firm EY in the shape of Shahin Baghaei, along with: …
Y Combinator
4 Legal Techs Join Y Combinator Summer ‘26
Legendary startup incubator and investor, Y Combinator, has accepted four legal tech companies into its summer 2026 cohort. Artificial Lawyer takes a look: Perceptron ML …
Claude for Legal
Anthropic Hires ‘Head of Claude For Legal’
Anthropic has hired Robert Mahari to be its first official ‘Head of Claude for Legal’. He’s a Fellow of Stanford’s CodeX legal tech group and …
Wrap
AI Realism, ILTACon, Legal Innovators New York + UK
Welcome to this week’s Wrap. We start with a selection of legal tech news, including the finding that AI realism is breaking out finally, albeit …